Mole

Animal Series

by Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, S.G. Ellerhoff

Though moles are rarely seen, they live in close proximity to humans around the world. Gardeners and farmers go to great lengths to remove molehills from their fields and gardens; mole-catching has been a profession for the past two millennia. Moles are also close to our imagination, appearing in myths, fairy tales, and comic books as either wealthy, undesirable grooms or seekers of enlightenment. In Mole, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff examines moles in nature as well as their representation throughout history and across cultures. Balancing evolution and ecology with photographs and artworks, Ellerhoff provides a veritable mountain of new insight into this exceedingly private mammal.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 13, 2020

About the author

STEVE GRONERT ELLERHOFF holds a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Mole (Reaktion Books, 2020), Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (Routledge, 2016), Tales From the Internet (2015), and Time's Laughingstocks (2013), and co-editor of George Saunders: Critical Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family (Routledge 2020). Currently he is writing Jung and the Mythology of Star Wars and a novel. Links to his published stories can be found on his website. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Reviews

[Brandon Allid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly informative and very well written. Simultaneously detailed and accessible. Highly recommended to those who love science and wildlife!

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative and detailed. with wry sense of humor. Ellerhoff shows his wit and erudition, proffering paleologic, biologic, taxonomy, and cultural analyses of misunderstood specie. He is adept, applying his literary scholarship to interpretations of movie "El Topo" and "Wind in the Willows". Enjoyable and piques curiosity.